Yes, the option exists, it's actually the "enable basic VESA" or whatever. That said, we've seen for whatever reason that that option causes slowdown moreso than if you just hit alt+enter right when the process was initiating.

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Hm. Yes, "Enable basic VESA support" did slow down everything quite considerably. Couldn't there be added an option that doesn't enable VESA, but just does the ALT+ENTER function somehow? It must be possible to do this to the window through the Windows API, no?

Also, it would be cool if the VDMS window had the icon and title of the created shortcut, not just the regular Command Prompt icon and "VDMS Launchpad - xxx" as a title.

quark wrote:

Hm. Yes, "Enable basic VESA support" did slow down everything quite considerably. Couldn't there be added an option that doesn't enable VESA, but just does the ALT+ENTER function somehow? It must be possible to do this to the window through the Windows API, no?

I did use the Windows API to create a small executable last year to try out this idea. Give it a try in a batch file to execute some game and see if there is still a "slowdown".

1Program Description:
2
3 Makes console windows go hardware fullscreen.
4 Uses undocumented Win95/98/Me WM_COMMAND 
5 Uses undocumented WinNT/2K/XP+ SetConsoleDisplayMode
6  or as fallback sends ALT-ENTER to console window
7 Sets Console Screen and Screen-Buffer size to 80x25
8 Sets/Resets SystemParameter ActiveWindowsTrackingDelay
9 Sets Console Environment variable 'NTVTM=FULLSCREEN' 
10
11 Compiled with Delphi version 6.0 (Build 6.240) Update 2
12 Author = dvwjr
13
14 Date = 07/07/2003
15 Version information = v1.1.0.0
16 Supported OS(s) = WinNT4, Win2K, WinXP, Win2003Server, Win95, Win98, WinMe
17 Notes = Added OS version checks and support for Win95/Win98/WinMe
18         Added support for setting Window Size and Buffer to 80x25
19         Fixed String memory allocation bug in Function GetConsoleHWnd
20         Added support for ActiveWindowTrackingDelay to prevent loss of focus
21         Added support for Console Environment variable NTVDM for future TSR 

The name of the program is "FullScrn.exe" and should be attached to this message.

Hope this helps...

dvwjr

Okay, I might try that out whenever I get VDMS to allocate EMS to my application again. Suddenly, VDMS dont allocate any EMS at all.